Group size estimator

How many trainers do I need to invite?

The Estimator is already "trainers of this attacker needed to finish inside the timer", so this page does not invent a number: it reads it off the boss's own ranked counter list for three realistic parties and re-simulates each of them at every level from 20 to 50.

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Invite 1 to be safe — 1 if everyone is prepared

At level 40, a party of Annihilape's top six counters needs 0.59 trainers (round up: 1), and a mixed lobby of ranks 13-24 needs 0.72 (round up: 1). The raid timer is 180 seconds and one prepared trainer alone would take 1:43. A prepared solo becomes possible at level 20. A duo works from level 20.

Annihilape · Tier 3

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Weak to

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Boss CP: 19,588
Boss HP: 3,600
Raid timer: 180s
Party used: 6

Trainers needed, by attacker level

Scroll sideways for the mixed-lobby column.

Trainers needed to beat Annihilape at each attacker level
Attacker level	Six of the best counter	A prepared party	A mixed local group	Prepared solo time	Faints per timer
Level 20	1(0.82)	1(0.87)	2(1.07)	2:32	4.6
Level 25	1(0.69)	1(0.74)	1(0.93)	2:10	3.8
Level 30	1(0.54)	1(0.65)	1(0.81)	1:54	2.9
Level 35	1(0.50)	1(0.61)	1(0.77)	1:47	2.5
Level 40	1(0.49)	1(0.59)	1(0.72)	1:43	2.3
Level 45	1(0.48)	1(0.57)	1(0.70)	1:40	2.1
Level 50	1(0.47)	1(0.56)	1(0.67)	1:38	2.0

Whole trainers in bold, the raw estimator in brackets — 2.04 means two trainers is right on the line and three is comfortable.

Six of the best counter

Every trainer brings six copies of the single best counter — the theoretical floor.

1 trainer at level 40

Necrozma (Dawn Wings)0.49

A prepared party

Each trainer brings the boss's top six counters, powered up and correctly TM'd.

1 trainer at level 40

Necrozma (Dawn Wings)0.49
Rayquaza0.56
Mewtwo0.58
Enamorus (Incarnate)0.61
Hoopa (Unbound)0.62
Zacian (Crowned Sword)0.65

A mixed local group

Ranks 13-24: reasonable but unoptimised parties, which is what a public lobby usually is.

1 trainer at level 40

Necrozma (Dusk Mane)0.69
Salamence0.72
Lunala0.71
Chandelure0.72
Gengar0.72
Staraptor0.72

The party these numbers assume

1. Necrozma (Dawn Wings)

Psycho Cut + Moongeist Beam

2. Rayquaza

Air Slash + Dragon Ascent

3. Mewtwo

Confusion + Psystrike

4. Enamorus (Incarnate)

Fairy Wind + Fly

5. Hoopa (Unbound)

Confusion + Psychic

6. Zacian (Crowned Sword)

Air Slash + Play Rough

See the full ranked counter list for Annihilape · check a real lobby (win chance, who brings what) · make a share card of the top six

How this is worked out

The boss is ranked once at level 40 with rankCached (the same memoised call /raids makes), then the three bands — rank 1, ranks 1-6, ranks 13-24 — are re-simulated at each attacker level with an 8-run Monte Carlo each. Holding the party fixed and moving only its level is deliberate: it answers "what if my party were level 20" rather than "what would a level-20 player's completely different party be", and it is about ten times cheaper than re-ranking every attacker seven times. The Estimator itself is Pokebattler's definition, time to win including rejoin time divided by the raid timer.